Lombok Tengah KDKMP Project Foremen Demand Rp 4.5 Billion in Arrears, Kodim Commander Denies Funds Routed to Former Officials

LOMBOK TENGAH, KOMPAS.com - Several foremen involved in the construction of the Red and White Village/Subdistrict Cooperative (KDKMP) project, represented by I Nyoman Sudarmika Kusuma, have filed a complaint about unpaid project fees totaling Rp 4,597,637,000 that remain unsettled to this day.

The report was addressed to the Commander of Military Region IX Udayana dated August 20, 2026. It includes data identifying those who suffered losses or have yet to receive payments from the project coordinator for KDKMP development in the Lombok Tengah area, managed by Military District Command (Kodim) 1620 Lombok Tengah, which appointed their work partner or contractor named Tarjono.

Sudarmika explained that out of 63 KDKMP buildings constructed in Lombok Tengah, 28 units have been fully paid for. Meanwhile, the remaining 35 units have received, on average, only 34 percent of their payments.

"Check those 35 locations, they are definitely stalled. As foremen, we are trusted to manage labor and materials during the Red and White Cooperative construction, yet payments go through Kodim’s partner, Tarjono," Sudarmika said.

When 11 foremen requested payment for labor and material costs from Tarjono, he added, they were only given promises with no actual payment (opname).

They subsequently raised concerns about the payment opname to Kodim 1620 Lombok Tengah, the project owner of the KDKMP development.

"The explanation we received from Kodim was that the budget had been given to the partner, in this case Tarjono, far exceeding the actual progress on the ground," he said.

Payment opname refers to a term commonly used by contractors and foremen, describing payments made based on inspections, measurements, and physical calculations of the actual work progress completed on-site.

According to Sudarmika, daily physical progress reports on the KDKMP construction are submitted to Babinsa (village supervisory non-commissioned officer) at each location. From Kodim's explanation, payments for the project have been made 100 percent, even though work in the field has only reached 30 percent completion.

Allegations of Funds Flowing to Former Officials

Sudarmika said the foremen are confused. From unilateral statements by Tarjono to the foremen, some of the funds received from Kodim 1620 Lombok Tengah allegedly reached former Kodim officials totaling as much as Rp 10 billion.

"This is a unilateral admission by Tarjono as Kodim’s partner in the KDKMP construction. Any clarifications are supposedly due to pressure on Tarjono after meetings with a former Kodim Commander, initialed KR, at Korem," Sudarmika explained.

"Regarding all these issues, we demand responsibility from Kodim 1620 Lombok Tengah as the project owner to settle the opname invoices for labor and materials totaling Rp 4,597,637,000 (more than 4.59 billion rupiah)," he added.

Sudarmika himself is also one of the foremen working on the KDKMP project in Lombok Tengah. He told Kompas.com he started work on the KDKMP Renteng project in Praya from scratch.

However, until now, he claims he has not received a single payment. Yet, Tarjono reportedly claimed to other foremen that for projects with progress at just 34 percent as of July 13, 2026, Kodim had already paid 100 percent.

"We can no longer trust the payment promises because the partner has apparently run out of funds," he said.